Do You Love Him?" How Would I

One Thing I Can Tell You For Sure Is This: We Only Regret What We Don't Do In Life.

To Make Real Friends You Have To Put Yourself Out There. Sometimes People Will Let You Down, But You Can't Let That Stop You. If You Get Hurt, You Just Pick Yourself Up, Dust Off Your Feelings, And Try Again.

She Is Like A Child Picking At A Scab, Unable To Stop Herself Even Though She Knows It Will Hurt.

I Prefer To Scare Myself In The Ordinary Ways, Daddy. Like Letting My Children Cross The Country For College. Why Bungee Jump When You Can Put A Kindergartener On A School Bus? Now, That's Real Terror.

The Falling Apart Of A Man's Life Should Make More Noise. It Should Startle Passesrby With Its Sturm And Drang. It Ought To Sound Like The Parthenon Crashing Down. Not This Ordinary, Everyday Kind Of Quiet...he Closed His Eyes...and Still It Was Quiet, This Falling Apart Of His Life, As Silent As The Last Beat Of An Old Man's Heart. A Quiet, Echoing Thud, And Then...nothing.